A couple of weeks ago, I visited New York City for the annual media tour hosted by the journalism department. So when I found out that we had to go visit the Knoxville News Sentinel building, I didn't think it would come close to comparing to the newsrooms I saw in NYC. I had also had my fair share of newsrooms for the rest of the year, so I wasn't looking foward to yet another tour. I mean how many different cubicle types are there?
Surprisingly, the KNS offices were much nicer and bigger than alot of the ones I saw in NY. It seemed to be much more in order than ones I saw just a few weeks ago. I don't know if that has anything to do with the different locations, but KNS was very straightened up.
The few people that we met from the KNS were very nice and helpful. They taught us a lot about how KNS manages their website and how they are trying to get more and more people to visit their website as a reliable news source. A lot of their online stories feature print, photos and video.
Although the News Sentinel has a good website, when you read the website from the New York Times, you libel to get more information from the source. When I compared the story on the California wildfires on both websites, the NY Times had a much more in depth story with more related material as opposed to the Knox News website which just gave a short story and several links.
When you compare the same story to the CNN website, you notice how it's more recently updated thant the Knox News website Although it may not measure up to some bigger names in media, the Sentinel does a great job keeping us informed, on print and online, with events happening in our area and around the nation
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